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Show have no motor trouble ; the outboard 70 motor has no radiator . ( R . 2594-5 , Vol . 14 . ) Herman ( W 1F ) . Freeze testified : In 1911 , 1 was employed by the American Placer Corporation of Chicago at Lees Ferry . The company had a boat called the Charles H . Spencer , which was around 80 or 100 feet ( long" long long ) . Exhibit 416 is a picture of that boat . On its first trip it brought three or four tons of coal on the front of the declq on the second trip it brought a little more ; and on the third trip it brought fifteen or twenty tons of coal , used for firing the boilers at Lees Ferry , where we also used driftwood for fuel . ( R . 2599-2604 , Vol . 14 . ) The company also had two small gasoline launches , one of which was intended for use in bringing down the barge loaded with coal , but it ( couldn't couldnt ) make the upstream trip and I recall their using it for pleasure trips once or twice . The other launch was used for gathering wood on the river and for other purposes . I ( don't dont ) know whether the Charles H . Spencer was used after I left . ( R . 2605-6 , Vol . 14 . ) ( I 1 ) ( wouldn't wouldnt ) say whether or not they made some trips in the two launches while I was there . On the upstream trip I think they took food on the Charles H . Spencer for the miners ; the boat had a crew of about five or six men . In operating the Charles H . Spencer they had no trouble ( when -vvhen vvhen ) that boat was observed by me or when it was observable from Lees Ferry . ( R . 2619 , Vol . 14 . ) F . J . Weber testified : I have been on about 45 miles of the Colorado River in the vicinity of Dandy Crossing ; went there in 1891 and remained until about July , 1892 , placer mining . I was taken from Hite to Good Hope bar in a boat ; saw other men use boats but ( didn't didnt ) use them myself . They would go up the river and bring supplies down on skiffs . There was a scow 22 feet long and 7 feet wide used at and about Hanson Creek . ( R . 2624-9 , Vol . 15 . ) ( Stanton's Stantons ) company had many wagons and horses with which they brought supplies and freight over to the river . ( R . 2630 , Vol . 15 . ) The scow I mentioned was built at Dandy Crossing , and taking it down the river to the dredge it grounded about seven miles below Good Hope bar ; loaded , its draft was 14 or 15 inches . The dredge began operating in 1899 and shut down in the early summer of 1901 . ( R . 2634-6 , Vol . 15 . ) The scow would carry as much as three thousand pounds of coal at a trip . The coal came from a point midway ( be- be ) tween the Henry mountains and the river , a distance of |